Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1887-02-11
EVENTS OF THE WEEK.
Domestic News

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On the 18th at Butler, KY, the Licking
river was within few inches of the highest
mark known, which was in 1854. ..
Henry Clay Dean, Democratic orator and
chaplain of the United States senate, died
at his home in Putnam county, Mo-, Sunday
aged sixty-6ve.
The Ohio river continued rising and on
the 4th was 55]11 feet at Cincinnati, and
fears were entertained of the worst.
Great anxiety was felt at st. Louis, Louis
vile and Evansville.
1t is learned that Mrs. Horace Fairbanks,
wife of ex-Gov. Fairbanks of st. Johnsbury,
VT, is among the lost She was to have
been on the train and it is stated that her
cloak and watch have been found.
There was no material change in the sit
uation at New York and vicinity on the
18th. The railroad and transportation COM
panles were gradually adding to their force
OF freight handlers, and no outbreaks or
violence had occurred.
At Winnipeg, Manitoba, Geo. Peat
closed his store at 6 p m, on the 4th inst,
and meeting friends he became under the
influence of liquor, and ON his way home
fell down in the street and was frozen to
death, tho Thermometer being 40 degrees
below zero.
The sales OF leaf tobacco in January in
Virginia were ], 1904, l59 pounds at an average
OSLO Is per hundred. Tho sales for the
preceding month we're 1851, 749 pounds at
an average of $3.50. The total sales since
October l, were l,497, $50 pounds at an
nfG A.
Heavy rains had been falling over the
country affecting the Ohio river and its
tributaries so that it was on rise from
Pittsburg to Cincinnati, rising at the rate
of six inches an hour, and on tho Srd, the
river showed 50 feet at Cincinnati and
would soon begin the damaging work of
submerging the lower portions of the city.
At Portsmouth and some other points in
Ohio, much damage has occurred from the
great volume of water.
The longshoresmens and freight handlers
strike at New York, which Originated in
demand Of an advance from II cents to 20
cents an hour, has now reached every trans
portation and steamship line and the whole
river front is in a state of siege on both
sides, and under guard of l 800 police and
detectives. Nearly all the companies have
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classes of freight can be handled. Both
sides are firm and no immediate agreement
is in prospect.
From to 30 Sunday morning earth
quake tremors, in two distinct shocks, last
ing about half a minute, and violently rock
ing houses, Earring windows and deranging
goods upon the shelves of stores, occurred
at Champaign, Vandolia, Carlyle, Hillsboro,
and Centralia, Ills, Evansville, Ind, and
~: lis No. Many people were fright
ened ana ran uuJ Cry lug fu41Ao1E,.- At CGau1-
palgn, lls., two merchants fastened to
their stores fearing their safes had been
blown open by human agency.
R. G. Dun & Co., in their weekly trade re
view say: Panics abroad and strikes at
home have tested the strength of all markets
during tho past week. News, in tho strict
sense, does not afford much evidence that
war impends; but rumor and apprehension
have depressed stocks and lifted grain Thus
tested, the markets have shown Unexpected
soidness. Foreign unloading of American
stocks has caused but a moderate decline in
prices, while even in the grain market the
advance has been conservative and limited.
and other markets have changed but little
Probably grain would have risen more had
not the great strikes exerted restraining
influence. Transporters are moving freight
more freely than week ago.